I can add an SSD to this?

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I recently bought a cheap laptop with a decent processor and RAM as I have an old laptop that I recently gave a brand new 500gig ssd.
Once I popped this laptop (HP 14-bp062sa) I couldn't find anywhere to plug in a sata drive and realised it uses a m.2, although crucials website says a normal ssd will work in this laptop.
Do I require an adapter or is it just my knowledge of laptop motherboards just poor?
I've added a photo for reference .
Thanks
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xji8k-1F1znXfot26sqZ0S2yWJ39bDbq/view?usp=drivesdk
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Don
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The big silver "Seagate" is a 2.5" sata hard drive :)

and the small pcb at the bottom is an m2 ssd (128GB).


(unless I'm completely missing the point)


EDIT:
You would need to remove the 2.5" hard drive (assuming it has nothing important, to fit the 500gb sata ssd)
 
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The big silver "Seagate" is a 2.5" sata drive :)

and the small pcb at the bottom is an m2 ssd.


(unless I'm completely missing the point)

The silver Seagate is there as reference. Showing the model has a bay but its not connected. That's just a random back up drive from my shelf. The current installed drive is the m. 2 at the bottom right of the photo
 
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Ah, with you now.

Struggling to find anything specific to that model number, but a lot of other recent HP's look to need a "Hard Drive Hardware Kit" which includes the caddy/brackets to mount it, and also a sata to small ribbon cable that looks like it plugs into that ribbon connector next to the battery in your picture.

something like:
h9B1n59.jpg



e.g. mentioned in this manual:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04446151.pdf

and similar part no's (likely not correct for your model):
740706-001
755740-001
733257-001
 
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